Pampano

Why?Food from La Paz, tables from midtown.

In the ’40s, John Steinbeck traveled around the Sea of Cortez collecting specimens for his book The Log from the Sea of Cortez. We thought that was pretty cool, so we traveled to Pampano in midtown to collect specimens from their La Paz-inspired Sea to Table menu: wood-smoked clams in tequila sauce, tuna tamalito with serrano-pepper coleslaw, bacon-wrapped jumbo shrimp in chipotle sauce, dorado in a tamarind-arbol pepper sauce and a guava-manchego pastry. It’s all paired with drinks, so our notes aren’t quite coherent enough for a book.